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  • Garlic Bed Mulch Crop

    From fos@sdf.org@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 1 12:18:04 2022
    in a couple weeks our garlic is ready for harvest. last year we
    harvested the garlic, covered the bed with shredded straw to prevent
    weeds, and didn't touch it again until early october a couple weeks
    before planting more.

    this year i'd like to grow a cover crop with the intention of
    incorporating it by turning it into the soil as an amendment when
    preparing for planting garlic again this fall.

    growing zone 6. any suggestions for what to plant. fava bean roots
    apparently help add nitrogen to the soil. is doing this even
    recommended, or is it not a good thing to do?

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  • From Bob F@21:1/5 to fos@sdf.org on Fri Jul 1 09:47:39 2022
    On 7/1/2022 5:18 AM, fos@sdf.org wrote:
    in a couple weeks our garlic is ready for harvest. last year we
    harvested the garlic, covered the bed with shredded straw to prevent
    weeds, and didn't touch it again until early october a couple weeks
    before planting more.

    this year i'd like to grow a cover crop with the intention of
    incorporating it by turning it into the soil as an amendment when
    preparing for planting garlic again this fall.

    growing zone 6. any suggestions for what to plant. fava bean roots
    apparently help add nitrogen to the soil. is doing this even
    recommended, or is it not a good thing to do?


    Many sites say not to plant garlic in the same place year to year.

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